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KNAPSAGK. v Patented July 3,1888.

WITNESSES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE BLANOHARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIQNOR OF THIRD TO EDWVARD H. STUDLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

KNAPSACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,657, dated July 3, 1888.

(No model.)

diers knapsack provided with all the usually required additions. This object I accomplish by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my invention as it appears when folded into the form of a knapsack. Fig. 2 shows the same when opened out to its full extent, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the article when used as a shelter-tent.

Hereto fore the combined knapsack and shelter-tent devices have in every case, so far as I know, been deficient in some essential featurethat is, the tent would be deficient of a ground floor, or, if provided with a ground floor, would have for a covering a simple blanket, with perhaps a slightly-raised part over the head of the user, and not, in fact, providing any tent for occupancy of the whole person, and the part called aknapsaek would be so deficient as to very poorly supply that want.

The construction of my device is shown best in Figs. 2 and 3, in which R is the part which forms the entire floor of the tent, and is long enough to comfortably receive the entire body of the occupant, and is made water-proof in order to protect the reclining occupant from the dampness of the ground.

A in the same figures represents that part which forms the roof of the tent, and is united at one end by stitches, rivets, or buttons, as indicated 'at d d, Fig. 2, to the part B, that forms the floor, and at the other end to the part E, that forms the head end of the tent. At the two sides of the roof part A, I attach triangular pieces D D, which form together the side walls of thetent. All of these parts, when arranged as shown in Fig. 3, form aconr plete shelter-tent, the interior of which is a comfortable chamber for the occupant to rest 1n.

1? and P, Fig. 2, represent pockets for containing the soldiers small articles. The larger things for instance, the underwear of the soldier-cau be placed within the folds of the knapsack.

C and C, Fig. 1, are the shoulderstraps of the knapsack, made in the usual manner. H and H are the straps usually used for holding the soldiers blanket or overcoat. L and L, Fig. 1, are bucklestraps for holding in place the outer folding cover, B, of the knapsack.

To fold my knapsack I place part E, Fig. 2, upon the part A. Then I fold the several parts on the line X X of Fig. 2. Then I fold the parts D D over onto the other parts, then again double on the line Y Y. Now a second folding on a transverse line, Z Z, half-way between X X and the upper edge of the part A, will complete the folding, and the knapsack will be ready for buckling down the folding cover B, and the article will assume the appearance shown in Fig. 1.

I claim In a combined shelter-tent and knapsack, the combination of a ground blanket, R, having attached to its end a roof-piece, A, pro' vided at its side edges with side wall-pieces, D D, with the attached end piece, E, all adapted to be made into a tent or to be folded for a knapsack, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

HORACE BLAN'OHARD.

Witnesses:

EDWARD H. STUDLEY, FRANK G. PARKER. 

